MARIA MERCEDES (daughter of Juana, enslaved)

BORN INTO SLAVERY IN THIS FAMILY'S HOUSEHOLD, 24 September 1812. "bautice solemnemente a MARIA MERCEDES, que nacio antes de ayer, NEGRA ESCLAVA DE DON SANCHO LERENA Y DE DONA MARIA FERNANDEZ, hija de JUANA. Madrina Catalina Martinez." She was born in the same month the padron was taken that counted four enslaved people in that house and named none of them. Nothing is known of what became of her. READ OFF THE PLATE 21 September 2026, where this row had rested on a MACHINE TRANSCRIPT. Film 007713375 image 02628, folio 136, Montevideo Catedral - the baptism of 26 September 1812. READ OFF THE PLATE, and every word of this row holds: 'bautice solemnemente a MARIA MERCEDES, que nacio ANTES DE AYER, hija de JUANA, negra esclava de D.n Sancho Lerena y de D.a Maria Fernandez: MADRINA CATALINA MARTINEZ, a quien instrui; y por verdad lo firme.' Born 24 September 1812, baptised at two days old. AND THE PLATE CARRIES A TRAP THIS ARCHIVE WALKED PAST. The act IMMEDIATELY BEFORE hers, on the same opening, baptises ANOTHER MARIA MERCEDES on 25 September 1812 - 'hija de TERESA ABELLEYRA, negra esclava de D.n RAMON ABELLEYRA'. Two enslaved girls of the same name, in two households, on consecutive days, on one page. This register also holds a TERESA enslaved in Sancho's household, from the padron - a different woman, from a different document, and the two must not be run together.